Web databases
These demonstrations have been created to show the way in which DBMS Computer Systems can enable you to access data using a standard Web browser. As small, low volume examples they are running as MS Access databases, for larger applications a different database engine would probably be required.

Like all busy solution providers our clients are more important than our own site, so please forgive us if some of the options do not work. They will, when we arrive at the time slot allocated and do some more work on them.

Web Data applications are used on the Internet for general access to data or on Intranets for restricted internal access to company information.

Every application requires a different solution to getting information from the data but we have put together some examples. In some cases the data was already available and being used for other purposes. In one case the data had been collected for many years and was not being exploited.

These are not full applications, just ideas to whet your appetite.

The data is test data from clients and is their copyright and may not be used or reproduced in any way and if you want to try these demonstrations you will need a login from us.

Converting data to information
This database was originally designed to store information about repair and maintenance work done on different buildings for clients and is used for invoicing.

The pages demonstrate the process of extracting information from such a database using simple forms. By making these query forms accessible via the Internet the organisation’s customers can now access the database via their Web browser and keep in touch with the work being done on their buildings.

The maintenance company now has a leading edge advantage over their competitors who are not able to satisfy this client need.

This is another example of converting basic data to useful information and extracting the maximum commercial advantage from it.

Online Operations Manual
An organisation has an Operations Manual produced centrally as a Word document which contains information and forms to be completed in certain situations.

The manual is constantly revised and there was a problem of keeping the printed user copies up to date. In addition, information about specific questions that the users had was difficult to find within the hard copy manual.

By converting The Operations Manual to an intranet application the users can search for information using their Web browser and forms can be completed on line and printed locally. In addition, each form has been designed with links to Help that is specific to the section of the form being completed.

The application stores all of the information about the forms and the help associated with them within a database which builds the Web site using the latest versions of the forms.

Open Access Hints and Tips
The Hints and Tips database originally existed as an archived Open Access database.
We simply converted it to an Access database and then designed a search form to access it.